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SFDT$–System Standard Format Date and Time
date
time
The address of a caller-specified date and time (must be in TDATE$ format). This
parameter is optional.
The address of a caller-specified time (must be in TIME$ format). This parameter is
optional.
If date or time are not included on the calling statement, the current date and time (from
ER TDATE$, or current time from ER TIME$ for time format 3) is used. The calling
program can use indexing, incrementation, and indirect addressing in specifying the
addresses for pktaddr, date, or time, by using the $EQUF directive. See $EQUF
definitions in the MASM Programming Reference Manual.
Returns
If the normal return is taken, SFDT$ has stored the ASCII date/time string in the buffer.
The following information is returned to the caller in registers A0 to A3 and also stored in
the packet at the appropriate locations:
A0 The address of the SFDT$ packet
A1 The number of characters in the formatted ASCII string
A2 The address of the buffer containing the ASCII string
A3 The character offset of the last nonspace character
If the error return is taken, register A0 contains the packet address, and register A1
contains the negative error code (also stored in the packet field errcode).
1 The buffer length is too short for specified format(s).
2 The date format index is out of range.
3 The time format index is out of range.
4 Both date and time formats are zero.
5 An outdated version of the SFDT$ packet is being used.
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